Flannery O’Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - an Analysis


Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2009

30 Pages, Grade: 1


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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Flannery O‘Connor
2.1. Biography
2.2. Relationships
2.3. Bibliography and Awards

3. Historical and Socio-Cultural Background
3.1. The Southern Literary Renaissance
3.2. The Cold War Narrative
3.2.1 The Myth of Pastoral Innocence
3.2.2. An American “Culture Religion“
3.2.3. The South and Segregation

4. Defining the Style
4.1. O’Connor’s Church
4.2. The Southern Grotesque

5. Textual Analysis
5.1. The Plot
5.2. The Characters
5 .2.1 The grandmother
5.2.2. The Misfit
5.2.3. June Star and John Wesley
5.2.4. Bailey and the children’s mother
5.2.5. Red Sammy Butts
5.3. Themes and Motifs
5.3.1 The Concept of Grace
5.3.2. Good vs. Evil
5.3.3. Southern Manners and Protestantism
5.3.4. Dysfunctional Family
5.4. Narrative Technique
5.5. Presentation of Settings
5.6. Cultural Signifiers
5.6.1. “The Tennessee Waltz”, tap-dancing and “Gone with the Wind”
5.6.2. “Queen for a Day”
5.6.3. “The watermelon story”
5.6.4. Pitty Sing

6. Conclusion

7. Bibliography

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Title
Flannery O’Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - an Analysis
College
University of Vienna
Grade
1
Author
Year
2009
Pages
30
Catalog Number
V171943
ISBN (eBook)
9783640915675
ISBN (Book)
9783640915941
File size
582 KB
Language
English
Keywords
flannery, o’connor, good, hard, find, analysis
Quote paper
Bachelor Katharina Eder (Author), 2009, Flannery O’Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - an Analysis, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/171943

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